Wednesday, April 30, 2014

France:

Siemens to Bid for Alstom (reNews)

Last Friday Global Geothermal News reported on U.S. company General Electric Co. reportedly in talks to buy Alstom SA, the French builder of trains and power plants.

Now German giant Siemens has confirmed it will make an offer to buy French manufacturer Alstom.

The company said in a statement that the prerequisite is that Alstom agrees to give it “access to the company’s data room and permission to interview the management during a period of four weeks, to enable Siemens to carry out a suitable due diligence”.

Siemens added that a letter outlining this had been submitted to Alstom and there would be no further comments “at this time”.

Alstom is a big player in the global geothermal energy market. Recently, Alstom has announced buying an interest in a Turkish geothermal energy company and has been tapped to build the 25 MWe Los Humeros III - Phase A geothermal plant in Mexico.

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